Weekly note

France in May

5 of the 5 destinations in France are in season in May: 3 a sweet spot, 2 good, 0 ok.

May is a sweet spot at 3 of these 5 places: Strasbourg, Corsica and Mont-Saint-Michel.

Ranked for May

#PlaceVerdict High Rain Why
1 Strasbourg sweet spot 20° 10d 20C max, 10 rainy days
2 Corsica sweet spot 22° 8d 22C max, 8 rainy days
3 Paris good 20° 10d 20C max, 10 rainy days
4 Mont-Saint-Michel sweet spotbusy 18° 10d busier than usual
5 Chamonix good 16° cool 15d 16C max, 15 rainy days

Other months for France

May elsewhere

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about France as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.